Will Keen

Actor

Will Keen

Born March 4, 1970 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK16 films

Will Keen (William Walter Maurice Keen, born 4 March 1970, Oxford) is an English stage, film, and television actor, active since 1993. He is the grandson of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, and father of actress Dafne Keen. He has been married to María Fernández Ache since 2002. Keen won the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Vladimir Putin in Peter Morgan's Patriots, which transferred from the Almeida to the West End and then to Broadway.

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His most notable screen roles include Michael Adeane in The Crown (2016–17) (Claire Foy, Matt Smith), Father MacPhail in His Dark Materials (2019–22) (James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda), and Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat (2021) (Colin Firth, Jason Isaacs). He also played Lord Belzagar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 (2024) (Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear) and Boris Berezovsky in Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin (Jude Law, Paul Dano), which premiered at Venice in August 2025.

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The Wizard of the Kremlin posterFirst watchThe Wizard of the Kremlin20266.4as Boris BerezovskyA major role.In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape life behind the Iron Curtain, using violence and…View film

Essential films

Ranked by role, acclaim and reach
Consecration poster5.6Consecration2023The Man Who Killed Don Quixote poster6.7The Man Who Killed Don Quixote2018The Man from Rome poster6.0The Man from Rome2022Dead Shot poster5.4Dead Shot2023Operation Mincemeat poster6.5Operation Mincemeat2022Victor Frankenstein poster6.0Victor Frankenstein2015Love and Other Disasters poster5.8Love and Other Disasters2006

Filmography

16 films as actor
  1. TBAThe Return of Stanley Atwell
  2. TBALa Cathédrale
  3. TBAIf Love Should Die
  4. 2026The Wizard of the KremlinBoris Berezovsky
  5. 2023Dead ShotWoodville
  6. 2023A Wind from the SouthRobert
  7. 2023ConsecrationJohn
  8. 2022The Man from RomeArchbishop Corvo
  9. 2022Operation MincemeatSalvador Gomez-Beare
  10. 2018The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's GlobeLeontes
  11. 2018The Man Who Killed Don QuixoteProducer
  12. 2015Victor FrankensteinSurgeon
  13. 2014GhostsPastor Manders
  14. 2006Love and Other DisastersDavid Williams
  15. 2004When I'm Sixty-FourDoctor
  16. 2000The Nine Lives of Tomas KatzCuthbert